Chris Roper The saga of censorship at Stellenbosch University took a new turn last week when students exhibiting at the university’s gallery took down their work because the show had been tampered with. A triptych by Mark Coetzee, featuring erect penises, was removed from the exhibition by Professor Greg Kerr, head of the Stellenbosch art […]

Mukoni T Ratshitanga Police and home affairs officials in Mpumalanga and the Northern Province are deporting large numbers of former Mozambican refugees despite a 1996 Cabinet resolution that gave them citizenship, according to reports from the provinces. Last week 120 former refugees were arrested in Giyani while travelling to work, says Nicola Johnston of the […]

South African judges blew millions on Mercedes, BMWs and Volvos, writes Andy Duffy South African judges spent more than R5-million of taxpayers’ money on luxury new cars last year. Most of the money came from the Department of Justice, months before the cash- crunch that forced it to halt overtime pay to its advocates and […]

Ferial Haffajee The government will tax private radio and television stations, as well as signal distributors, to fund local-content production. A draft White Paper on broadcasting says a fund will be established to subsidise local producers. It is understood that private owners may have to pay up to 1% of their profits, which translates into […]

Ed O’Loughlin Despite lurid reports to the contrary, the pursuit of the civil war in Sierra Leone has had little to do with British mercenaries, illegally imported Bulgarian weapons, Executive Outcomes, Foreign Office intrigue or the crew of HMS Cornwall. Whatever the British government may or may not have known about the activities of the […]

An offensive by southern Sudan’s secessionists will fuel famine, writes Peter Beaumont from Wun Rog The wind was blowing dust devils in Bahr el Ghazal, southern Sudan’s arid plain of thorns. It promised to bring rain but in some areas few farmers will be ready if it comes. There is little sign of any attempt […]

Mukoni T Ratshitanga The National Party lost three municipal by-elections to the Democratic Party this week, indicating that the party’s support base among white South Africans is crumbling and raising questions about its future. The NP polled 22,3% in its traditional stronghold of Bergvliet in the Western Cape – 48 hours after Gerald Morkel was […]

Mark Tran `People laughed at us when we told them that Yahoo! would be worth more than Netscape – `they’re just a bunch of kids’, we were told,” recalls Andrew Nibley, president of Reuters New-Media, a subsidiary of the British news group created in 1994 to position the company for the Internet age. Nibley, who […]

The two police chiefs who vindicated Vito Palazzolo last year are likely to come under investigation as part of a new police probe, reports Andy Duffy Police chief George Fivaz has called on the presidential investigation task unit to re- open a probe into an alleged crime ring involving police, state officials and convicted Mafia […]

David Lewis and Jayendra Naidoo South Africa has chosen a path of social dialogue – but is it working? Social dialogue reflects the unique national pressures and circumstances of a state making a transition to democracy and introducing far-reaching economic reforms. A social partnership that is associated with a reduction in inequalities of wealth, income […]